Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-29
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cises of favoritism to the opposing sects.
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 Modern needles first came into use in 1545.
 Harvard distributed s53,0O0 to indigent students last year.
 In the time of King Edward II the price of the Bible in England was e37
 Electric lights are now being used by sub marine divers with great effect.
 A phrenologist has been making money of late in Washington examining the bumps on senatorial heads. @
 Most of the London churches have offered up prayers for the recovery of the crown prince of Germany.
 Volapuk is publicly taught in France, Ger many, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria; Russia, and Denmark.
 The Grand Army has increased from 60, ,634 in 1880 to 372 674 in 1887. The gain in the past year and quarter was 46, 157.
 An immense hunting expedition is about to start for Masailand, the ground of Rider Haggard's last novel, 'Allan Quatermain."
 The hospital Saturday fund in London amounts to $50, ,OOO this year. Collections are made every Saturday in workshops and factories.
 Several German firms have given notice to houses in Bradford, where there are many Germans, that they will adopt Volapuk in corresponding with English manufacturers.
 The London Times says that a few weeks ago some excavations at Pompei brought to light set of surgical instruments, many of which resemble instruments in use at the present day.
 1obr, E1y,ooy Ohio fn start a daily newspaper in the Finnish lan- guage at Ishpeming, Mich, Jan. 1. It will be the only daily in that language published in the United States.
 A Maine man as experiment. clipped the fleece from pet Newfoundland dog and had it carded and spun into yarn. It yielded four skeins of jet black yarn, weighing two and one-quarter pounds, and was as soft as wool A solid lump of coal, containing eighty seven cubic feet and weighing 6,351 pounds, was exhibited at the Texas state fair recent ly held at Dallas. It was the largest block of coal ever taken from mine in the United States.
 It is said that the most acceptable of all holiday presents to lady from her husband or brother, or any friend who has right to give it, is long, narrow strip of tinted paper on which is written: ''Pay to the order of -$ e."
 MT. and Mrs. Lewis, an American couple, have been travelling for four months through Europe on a tandem cycle. Their joint ex- penses by this mode of travelling have been limited to twenty-six shillings day, sight seeing fees included. .-.-.-4-..-.- MT. Jesse Haworth, of Bowdon, Cheshire, has presented to the British museum the throne chair of Queen Hatasu, of the eigh- teenth Egyptian dynasty, B. c. 1900. This l is the oldest piece of furniture in the world the date of which is known. 1 An example of economy was that of Ignatz Freund in his Detroit store, who lighted the gas jets one after another with single match until it burned~his fingers, and then dropped it into a pile of cotton, the result of | which was general panic and damage of $1,500.
 l In France 131, ,734 ,s27 francs are expended on public instruction, and 12, ,936, ,655 on the | fine arts. There is an elementary school for every 472 inhabitants, and a primary attend ance of 3, ,S8S, ,0S6 Of the entire appropriation | this year 81, ,460, 900 francs were set down for primary education. | Recently consignment of 9,e7O boxes of l raisins from Fresno, Cal, were shipped via | the Sunset route to New York. The weight | of the consignment was AT, 900 pounds. and it occupied @ special train of twenty cars. It was the largest single shipment of freight ever made from California, and regular rates were paid. 1 A Philadelphia merchant says that, in opening the mail in the morning, he always reserves for the last those letters which have ''The Honorable" preffxed to the address His experience has been that in nine cases out of ten they aru written by persons who ask some favor, and make use of the prefix in mild attempt at flattery.
 In Buenos Ayres there is bank which has paid up capital of $57, ,O00, ,0OO, deposits of $35, ,OOO, ,OO0, and line of discounts amount ing to $6O, ,ooo, GOO. The Argentine Republic imports $50, ,000, 900 worth of goods, and of this sum the United States gets only $5, 900, 900. The country is already powerful com petitor in the market of the world for dressed beef and wheat.
 | A Chicago clergyman, in recent sermon on the vice of great cities, gave severe rap at certain eminent divines who have been in the habit of visiting the slums to obtain ocular evidence of their iniquity. ''I have not personally visited the vile places of the city for the purpose of afterward preaching about them," said he; ''that is too thin. J Whereupon the congregation audibly smiled.
 Indications now point to the existence of a | submarine volcanic crater between the Canary Islands and the coast of Portugal From cable laying steamer in 80 degs 25 mins. north, 9 degs. 54 mins west, the water was found to measure 1900 fathoms under the bow and 800 under the stern, showing the ship to be over the edge of deep depression in the ocean bottom. The well known great inequalities in the bed of the Sea of Lisbon are thought to be due to submarine chain of mountains.
 | LITERARY NOTES.
 The serials in Harper's for 1888 are to be by William Black and w. D. Howells.
 Mir. Chamberlain, it is said, will write a